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Physics of Life: Students and Postdocs Edition

  • Skylight Room at the CUNY Graduate Center (map)

Friday, November 11
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST
Skylight Room (9th Floor) and via Zoom

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9:30 AM
Coffee and bagels

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Temperature-dependent molecular folding landscape measured from single-molecule force experiments
Marc Rico-Pasto
University of Barcelona


10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Experiment and simulation reveal atomistic details for how target binding tunes calmodulin’s calcium-binding properties
Jules Nde
University of Washington

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Statistical analysis of sharing across immune repertoires
Maria Ruiz Ortega
École Normale Supérieure, Paris

11:30 AM
Break

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Antigen encoding and antagonism in T cell activation dynamics
François Bourassa
McGill University

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Coupled Oscillators during patterning: cell cycle and the segmentation clock
Usha Kadiyala
University of Michigan

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Theory of cell size homeostasis
Motasem ElGamel
University of Pittsburgh


1:30 PM
Lunch

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Dynamic and thermodynamic bounds on the performance of multi-component molecular machines
Matthew Leighton
Simon Fraser University

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Signatures of irreversibility in microscopic models of flocking
Federica Ferretti
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
A perturbative approach uncovers context-dependent processing of natural scenes in the retina
Samuele Virgili
The Vision Institute, Sorbonne University


Sponsored in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of the CUNY Graduate Center and Princeton University.